Agentless Monitoring for RHEL Based Systems

[hb_tooladmin]

Hi

We have RHEL 7.8 on IBM system Z with S390X Architecture.
The standard NCPA agent is not getting installed on this sort of RHEL Server.

What is the best way to monitor all the System Health and Database Health parameters on this server with / without agent.

Regards,
Harshit Bansal

[benjaminsmith]

Hi,

You can run checks over ssh between Nagios XI and the remote system. This would still require the installation of a plugin on the remotes system but would not require an agent.

Nagios XI does have a wizard for this, SSH Proxy Wizard, you'll find directions for configuring automatic ssh login between the XI system and the remote host in the doc below.

Monitoring Hosts Using SSH

Another option would be to use SNMP for monitoring. This would provide system-level metrics, but I'd have to do some research to determine the database side. What application are you using?

Monitoring Linux Using SNMP

Benjamin